Scripting News: Manila Express™ is ready! Once it's installed you can right-click in any Web page to add a link on the home page of your Manila website. Cool!

Looks like I should have left yesterday's prediction right where it was. . . oh well. As I write this pikeRenderer has been released to the public, which looks way cool, but Manila Express™ is still up in the air as to what exactly it is. . . Carpe Diem seems to have a guess about it. I hope (and think) he's right... I swear, Dave actively enjoys teasing us.

When Q and iRights agree on something like this, you know it must be right

Q Daily News says, I have to say, I don't feel too badly for students at colleges which have banned Napster on their networks, and looking at it as 'censorship' is just plain ridiculous. When universities with huge bandwidth are saying that 61% of that bandwidth has, at times, been used exclusively by Napster, then they have to do something about it.

A press release on the spoof site declares "iCraveTV is the first generation of Internet parasites; we're the next generation. As an upstart Internet company, we are seeking the maximum content value with the lowest possible levels of investment and effort. What better way than to just swipe someone else's signal?" I love it.

I think the US Government is just jealous of China. As the article says in the last paragraph, The United States eased its restrictions on exports of products containing encryption earlier this month, despite the fears of security agencies that it could help criminals. Ms. Barshefsky, could I ask you to please talk to the security agencies and the rest of the Executive branch and explain to your own government why 'restricting information over the Internet is futile'? It'd be much appreciated.

U.S. to China: Change Crypto Regs: She [Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky] said her U.S. negotiators have repeatedly pressed China authorities to reform these rules and also dismissed Chinese efforts to restrict information over the Internet as futile. LOL! When the US wants to restrict encryption and regulate the Internet, it's for the protection of our children, only a matter of the right censorware, importent for the preservation of right-thinking society, etc. etc. When the Chinese want to restrict encryption and regulate the Internet, it's "futile".

Wondering why I'm so down on UCITA? Try reading a UCITA introduction. "All you ever wanted to know about the
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is contained here."
Or just read an overview of the problems; and please understand that overview does not exaggerate in the slightest.

The prediction formerly occupying this space has been retracted due to changing conditions... now Scripting News mentions two killer widgets.